SPA Modeler

LOL! Yep Carlos, that is how I did it when I was a kid!

Balcksheep, that is a very respectable number of models you built in your childhood. It sounds about the same as the number I did as well. I was also motivated by the wargames we did for five years or so from the time I was nine through 14. the rule was that we had to have at least built something before adding it to the game; painting was an option which gave better bonuses to the equipment we introduced. That's when my count exploded and by the time I got married at 26; I had at least 450+ models built.

Now I'm up to 1591; and yes, most of them are models from my youth and childhood...

Stikpusher wrote:You sure built quite a lot over the years! How many of the old ones survived to this day?

Unfortunately, a very small handful. The missus once forced me to get rid of some of my old model kits a year after moving into our new house. She called it clutter and hoarding.
Oh, I was pissed and the argument we had over it wasn’t pretty. So, she got her way, she knew I was extremely pissed and I made it be known it will never be forgotten nor forgiven. She now knows it and regrets it. It’s all water under the bridge now.

In reality, I’d say a small fraction of what was on that list I still had but very little survived since then.

I’ll post some pics of the surviving ones I managed to hold on to.